Hi Paul,
Thanks for the feedback.
> > +The @posixheader{ctype.h} API, that was designed only with unibyte
> > +encodings in mind, is useless nowadays; it does not work in
> > +multibyte locales.
>
> It's still useful, even in multibyte locales, when dealing with data
> that is inherently unibyt
Paul Eggert wrote on 2023-05-16:
> Em dash (---) shouldn't have spaces around it; if you like those spaces
> (which I kind of do) please use en dash (--).
I agree, also after reading [1] and [2]. Thanks for the advice. Done.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash
[2]
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Thanks for writing that. A quick review:
Em dash (---) shouldn't have spaces around it; if you like those spaces
(which I kind of do) please use en dash (--).
+It is important to realize that the majority of Unix installations
+nowadays use UTF-8 or GB18030 as locale encoding; therefore, the
wide character strings.
2023-05-15 Bruno Haible
doc: New chapter "Strings and Characters".
* doc/strings.texi: New file.
* doc/gnulib.texi (POSIXURL): New variable.
(posixheader, posixfunc, func): New macros, from GNU libunistring's
